Publisher's Synopsis
MY MOTHER AND FATHER NAMED ME ARON, BUT MY FATHER SAID THEY SHOULD HAVE NAMED ME WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, AND MY UNCLE TOLD EVERYONE THEY SHOULD HAVE CALLED ME WHAT WERE YOU THINKING... Aron is a nine-year-old Polish Jew, and a born troublemaker. Then, in 1939, the walls go up around the Warsaw Ghetto. As lice and typhus rage, families starve and fight, it is Aron who always finds a way, however dangerous - or treacherous - to survive. But when he is flung together with orphanage director Janusz Korczak, Aron begins to learn of something greater than survival...
